Woman claims she was kicked out of African Arts festival for being white

If you think we live in a post-racial idyll where intolerance and bigotry have left the building, then you only need to hear Susan Stone’s story.

Ms Stone claims that she was booted out of a recent African arts festival in St. Louis, Missouri, simply because she is white.

Susan was attending the festival to perform as a ‘life dancer,’ a style of movement that’s made her a bit of a celebrity in the local area. But far from being booked by a promoter and added to the line-up, Susan was just going to show up and dance for anyone in her vicinity.

Looking like she’d dipped herself in PVA glue and crashed into a Matalan, the benzo-ballerina started to bust out moves befitting the Bolshoi – had its entire cast inhaled ether before Swan Lake.

Sadly, staff soon put a stop to her act. Speaking to KMOV, Susan says a security guard told her, ‘you can’t be at this event you’re not black’.

While this seems rather inappropriate, a video Susan recorded of the incident suggests the reasons for her removal were more than skin deep.

In the video, she’s accused of blocking the audience’s view, creating a disturbance by refusing to sit, and posing as an act despite not representing African culture – which seems fair enough.

Take a look and see what you think, then have a gander at some of her 2000+ YouTube uploads and consider whether you’d want her dancing at your arts festival, African or otherwise.